Anyone have any idea how to rectify the following issue a windows update error 0x8007F004 which is an inadequate permissions to install updates. The user is a local admin adn I even tried Run As... as domain admin and recieve the same error. I have checked group policy per an online posting I have found and even after GP update no luck installing these failed updates. Our Windows 7 and Vista machine do not suffer from this same mallady.

I would strongly recommend you look at WSUS to deploy Windows Updates. All you need is one Windows Server box to install it on, and it uses the Automatic Updates feature on the PCs to do the update installation.

I would also recommend turning CharlieB's steps into a cmd script that you can run as needed.

Thank you for all the suggestions, I can say with certainty, that on at least one of the computer (all I have had time to test it on so far) the solution was actually to enable automatic updates. I did not have it enable and manually performed updating from the MS site, but for some reason this stopped working, so I enabled the download but don't install option then ensured the automatic updates service was running and boom the updates that refused to install started installing. Go figure.

I would strongly recommend you look at WSUS to deploy Windows Updates. All you need is one Windows Server box to install it on, and it uses the Automatic Updates feature on the PCs to do the update installation.

I would also recommend turning CharlieB's steps into a cmd script that you can run as needed.

Actually I just installed WSUS the other day and haven't had a chance to finish setting it up. We did not have a box with the storage space needed until we recently killed a project, which opened up the server 03 box for use for other things, including the new spiceworks box, yea!